Do regional public-private collaboratives play a role in this initiative? Are employers required to participate?
Regional public-private collaboration is essential to the success of this initiative. At its core, health care is local. It is provided in a diverse range of environments that differ in their history, resources, populations served, market characteristics, and medical cultures. Because of this diversity, the most effective steps to achieving lasting improvements in health care require a critical mass of support from community stakeholders – including healthcare providers, consumers, payers and purchasers – investing their time and resources toward shared, meaningful, actionable goals. Employers are already involved in numerous collaboratives across the country. The relationships formed in these collaboratives provide the foundation for employers, health insurance plans, providers, and consumers to work together to improve health care. Regional public-private collaboratives are also working on the ability to share clinical data for quality measurement and reporting between and among coll
